Improvement in metal belting



@met @wie ltuited N gisten W. PfPOWERS, OF NORTH LA GROSSE, WISCONSIN.

Letters Patent No. 97,312, dated November 30, 1869; autedat'ed November24, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN METAL IBELTIN'G.

aa-a--M The Schedule referred to in these Letters Ptent and making partof the same.

-oww- To all whom it tina/y concern Be it known that I, W. I. POWERS, ofNorth Le Crosse, in the county of Lft Grosse, and State of Wisconsin,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metall Beiting; andI do hereby declare that the following is e full, clem', and exactdescription thereof, 'reference being had to the accompnnying drawings,and to the letters of p reference marked thereon, which form a. port ot'this specification, and in which is represented :L plztn view oi' myn'ietnllic beltinw.

The nature of my invention consists iu the employment of e. series ofwire links, connected together in the munncr Imid for the purposehereinafter described.

'lo enable others skilled in the nrt to which my iuvention appertatins,to ineke l.1nd use the same, l will now describe its construction andoperation.

In the accompanying drawinga represents zt series of wires, provided nterich end with the spiral twist b, -forrning the shape of' the letter Z.

c is also :L series of wires, bent so as to form et its bese the side of.it rectangle, und provided :it each end `with the spiral twist d,extendinginward.

My belting is thus formed I first l'orm e rectangular wire, c, provided:Lt each end with the spiriti twist (l, and then pass through the spirzdtwists a. wire which has been previously passed through the spiraltwists on two of the Z-shaped wires` a, being careful to so place thewires a, that one will extend above, to connect with the upperlink, andthe other below, to connect with the link below.

The wire thus passed through the twists is then bent, forming n.rectangle :1tits bese, and forming n spinti twist, d, uit each end.

I then insert another wire provided, as belbre, with the two series a,and so on until the required length of bclting hns been mande.

This belting cnn be murle ot' any width.

Having thus described my invention,

'hut I claim as' new, :ind desire to secure by Letters Patent,

l.-.(llonstructing :t meta-l belt by twisting the ends of each linknroulid the lutscot` each siicceeding link, substantially as described.

2. The Zshepcd wires a, twisted :ufound the centres ot' each bese of'the links, substuutinlly in' the manner and for the purpose described.

3. The wires c c, twisted as described, in combine-V tion wit-hZ-s'lntped wires a, substantially in the. mann ner' and for the purposedescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing es myown, "I :n.flix mysignature, in presence of two witnesses.

W. l". POWERS.

Witnesses:

.1, B. Riormnus, H. M. NELSON.

